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Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
A conveyance for the con? At Psychology Today Blogs, Joe Pierre warns us that
Follow the link and be forewarned.
An Unintended Truth 0
Yesterday, I heard a commercial for Fox News which stated that they have stories “you won’t hear anywhere else.”
It’s most certainly a true statement, but not methinks in the way that they intended it to be.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another oxymoronic “responsible gun owner” appears to have exposed a portable phallus to a child.
A second-grade student, who had the weapon, suffered a hand injury during the incident.
So many guns. So much stupid.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
UGa history professor Stephen Mihm hears the Trump maladministration’s ICE shaking down brown people and hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit:
Case in point: the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a deeply unpopular law that effectively radicalized large swaths of the American electorate. It led to widespread civil disobedience, the destruction of a major political party and, thankfully, accelerated the end of slavery itself. Its lessons are ones Republicans should ponder – and fast.
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*Mark Twain.
The Tinder Trap 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
This New Gilded Age 0
At the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Bob Marshall argues that the Trump maladministration’s EPA is putting profits over people. A snippet:
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That sentence was handed down when the agency quietly decided this: It will no longer include the number of lives lost or damaged when determining the required cost-benefit analysis of pollution regulations.
Immunity Impunity
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My old Philly DL friend Noz has some thoughts on what must be done if the American Stasi is to redirected from their current path of trampling on rights and violating Constitutional protections.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Noam Shpancer cautions us that (slightly reformatted from the original)
Follow the link for his descriptions of just what they “tend to do.”
Be forewarned, it ain’t pretty.
The Me Veneration 0
Seth identifies the governing principle of today’s Republican Party.